Tag: Prisoner
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The war on Palestinian soccer: Free Mahmoud Sarsak
By Ramzy Baroud 4 June 2012 | Press TV: Viewpoints On June 3, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed 80 days of a grueling hunger-strike. He had sustained the strike despite the fact that nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates had called off their own 28-day hunger strike weeks ago. Although the story of Palestinian…
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Occupied Palestine: farce, tragedy, travesty
By Patrick Keddie 20 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The three snapshots below are composed from interviews conducted whilst working for the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank from September to December 2011. FARCE Rodni Jaber is a Palestinian woman who lives and works as a farmer in Al-Baqa’a, a windswept…
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Israeli military court extends administrative detention for civil rights lawyer Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq
9 February 2012 | Tanweer Enlightenment Forum The Israel military court has extended administrative detention for two months in addition to three months already detained for civil rights lawyer Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, a lecturer at An-Najah National University and the Cultural Coordinator for the Tanweer Palestinian Cultural Enlightenment Forum, currently detained in Ofer Prison…
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International strategy for Palestinian prisoners needed
by Joe Catron 2 February 2012 | Al Akhbar English “Any movement that does not support its political internees is a sham movement.” – US political prisoner Ojore Lutalo Political prisoners, their families, and their concerns and causes enjoy massive support in Palestinian society. Palestinians who may have never joined a boycott campaign or acted…
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West Bank couple, deported to Gaza, recount difficult years in Israeli prison
by Joe Catron 30 January 2012 | The Electronic Intifada “This is the life of Palestinian people,” Obada Saed Bilal said one recent morning. “If I hadn’t been detained, I would have been wounded or martyred. I was in detention for over nine years, but I still resist. My marriage and university studies are my…
